Home > Questions and Answers > Traffic Source Questions

Advertiser Redirecting Traffic? (5)

03-05-2013 05:39 PM #1 ahefner33 (Member)
Advertiser Redirecting Traffic?

Hey,

Just wanted to throw this out there and wanted to know how can an affiliate tell if a advertiser is redirecting traffic to record under another id?

I have a direct link campaign and became aware of a huge dropoff of conversions over the past week when I checked my stats. I cant really pin point anything as I don't have any changes nor is the common theme of the traffic different.

When I checked my my urls and clicked through and then got the page info of the offer page, the cookies placed showed different values from my affid, subids, and even had values for ztrack and atrack that I don't even have in use with my tracking.

So I am confused as to why I see different values when I check the cookies of the page that comes up after my aff links are clicked. I'm probably wrong but just wanted to see if there was a way to check to see if this was truly happening without having to purchase the actual product through my own aff link

Thanks

03-05-2013 07:11 PM #2 dario (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by ahefner33 View Post
When I checked my my urls and clicked through and then got the page info of the offer page, the cookies placed showed different values from my affid, subids, and even had values for ztrack and atrack that I don't even have in use with my tracking.
maybe the offer you're promoting is brokered through another network
what's the product/offer you're promoting ?

03-06-2013 12:29 PM #3 ahefner33 (Member)

BeauteMD... Is there a way to check these things? I know offer snitch will show you the multiple redirects if its brokered but this is direct with the advertiser so it shows none other than the one directly to the advertiser.

03-06-2013 10:21 PM #4 zeno (Administrator)

Why not just hit them up about it and raise your concerns? Maybe test your aff URL through a dozen different X country proxies in private browsing modes (use portable Chrome or something with cache cleared each time), record the subids passed/resulting cookies etc and see if there is a clear discrepancy and forward it on to them. If that is happening somewhere along the line it's incredibly malicious - would think brokering makes more sense here since the advertiser can just scrub conversions and you'd have no on-page evidence.

03-07-2013 01:51 AM #5 ahefner33 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by zeno View Post
Why not just hit them up about it and raise your concerns? Maybe test your aff URL through a dozen different X country proxies in private browsing modes (use portable Chrome or something with cache cleared each time), record the subids passed/resulting cookies etc and see if there is a clear discrepancy and forward it on to them. If that is happening somewhere along the line it's incredibly malicious - would think brokering makes more sense here since the advertiser can just scrub conversions and you'd have no on-page evidence.
Hey. Yeah I did but I haven't heard anything back. Ill try your suggestion with multiple proxies.

Home > Questions and Answers > Traffic Source Questions